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Rolling Stones

(Encyclopedia)Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great influence. Member...

Rolling Meadows

(Encyclopedia)Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components. ...

standing stones

(Encyclopedia)standing stones: see megalithic monuments. ...

Jagger, Mick

(Encyclopedia) Jagger, Mick (Michael Phillip Jagger): see Rolling Stones. ...

Leibovitz, Annie

(Encyclopedia)Leibovitz, Annie lēbˈəvĭts [key], 1949–, American photographer, b. Waterbury, Conn., as Anna-Lou Leibovitz. A celebrated portrait photographer, she began contributing photographs to Rolling Ston...

Waters, Muddy

(Encyclopedia)Waters, Muddy, 1915–83, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b. Rolling Fork, Miss., as McKinley Morganfield. As a teenager he began singing and playing traditional country blues on harmonic...

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